Improvement in toy pictures



ATTUBNEYS.

J. KAYSER.

Toy-PICTURE.

Patented Nov. 14, 1876..

. WITNESSES:

THE GRAPHIC 00.N.Y

i ITEn STATES PATENT OEEIOE.,

JOSEPH KAYs'EE, OE NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN Toy PICTURES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 184,384, dated November 1'4, 1876; application filed September 16, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH vKltvsER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Toy Picture, of which the following is a specification:

In thev accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a front view, and Figs. 2 and 3 a vertical transverse and a horizontal section, respectively, on lines x x and y y, Fig. 1, of my improved toy picture.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The invention relates to improvements in the construction of the surprise-picture applied to paper boxes and other articles, for which Letters Patent have been granted to me under date of April. 18, 1876, and No. 176,228, so that more than two pictures may be instantly and successively changed thereon in very neat and amusing manner, to be applicable for campaign purposes, valentines, stationery, paper boxes, and other purposes.

The invention consists of a toy picture, arranged with three or more sets of transverse strips, of which one set is stationary andthe other sets movable, and so arranged as to slide backward and forward between and over the stationary set, while one of the movable sets also slides between and over the other movable set by being drawn by suitable d eother suitable pulling device, B1, and in Opposite direction back into its normal place in the part A by a spring, B2, of rubber or other material, which is attached to part A and to a second sliding section, C, that is guided in a recess of part B.

Both movable sections B and C are provided, in similar manner as the stationary or main portion A, with, pictures formed of sets of transverse strips, of which one set isfastened to the outer, the other to the inner, Inovable frame, so that a picture is applied to each section, and slides with the same.

The inner movable section, O, is drawn backward and forward by a pulling device, O1, and the spring B2, in the same ,manner as section B. The movable sets of transverse strips slide between and over the stationary strips when either one or both are drawn back or forth. y

The set of strips applied to the movable section B is interposed between the stationary strips and the upper movable strips applied to section C, and slides over the lower, and l between the lower and upper, strips. The uppermost setot' strips of section C slides over the interposed strips, and with the same bei tween and over the stationary set of strips.

The spring B2 binds on the upper part of section B, and retains the same in position,

.when the inner sliding section is drawn, so

that the upper or face picture is thereby instantly and totally changed to the one next below.

By pulling the outer sliding section,'both movable parts are jointly carried forward, and thereby the lower stationary picture exposed to view, which pictures resume their former position by the action of the spring when the pulling string or strings are released.

I do not confine myself to the arrangement of three surprise-pictures only, as a greater number may be arranged in one frame, ifdesired, and thereby a number of surprising and 'amusing effects be obtained.

on section B to `ret-ain it in position when the section C only is moved back and forth, substantially as described.

t JGSEPH KAYSEB. Witnesses:

mPAUL GOEPEL,

ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

